“Well, I thought that it was the best and the worst of Trump. The best of Trump in that he seemed very committed, very strong on trying to bring peace. The problem was that I think this is a disastrous step. It was too much, too fast, too early,” said UCLA’s Steven Spiegel. (UCLA’s Saree Makdisi also quoted on KPCC-FM’s “Marketplace” [Audio download])

Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, argues that the ridge forms in part because the West is warming up much faster than the East. If this is the case, then scientists might expect to see the phenomenon fade in decades to come, as the East Coast catches up to the West. (Also: Washington Post, CBS News )

“Developers are selling authenticity and the urban experience, which is more in favor than 15 years ago, when suburbia was viewed as the utopia,” said Paul Habibi, a lecturer in development at UCLA’s Ziman Center for Real Estate.

While other cities have shied away from marijuana, “this is a city that is ready to make the jump and not just put their toe in the water,” said Brad Rowe, an adjunct professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and chief executive of the research and consulting firm Botec Analysis.

The report notes that the amount of bail levied disproportionately fell onto low-income blacks and Latinos. “This is an extraordinary amount of wealth taken primarily from low-income, communities of color,” Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the interim director of UCLA’s African American Studies department and one of the authors of the report, said in a statement.

“There are a lot of things” about the Filipovic opus that disappoint Lynn Vavreck, a UCLA political scientist and co-author with George Washington University’s John Sides of “Identity Crisis,” a forthcoming dissection of the 2016 campaign. Indeed, she deconstructs the sentiment, which is central to the thesis, that “a pervasive theme of all of these men’s coverage of Mrs. Clinton was that she was dishonest and unlikable. “

“The viability of the business model is a significant hurdle probably only eclipsed by the complexity of the environmental review and the possibility of legal challenges,” cautioned Juan Matute, associate director of UCLA Lewis Center and the Institute of Transportation Studies.

The weather condition is most common in the period of October through March when the desert is relatively cold, and the winds develop as high pressure builds over the Great Basin in Nevada, according to the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

“So here we are in the controlled room where we communicate with the participant, where we run the computers that run the MRI scanner.… In the past two decades we’ve learned a lot about how the adolescent brain is different than the adult brain,” said UCLA’s Adriana Galvan. (Approx. 04:58 mark)

While simply looking at the number of hearings is an imperfect measurement, said Mark Peterson, the chair of the Public Policy department at UCLA, he noted that while health care affects 1/6 of the economy, certainly no small fraction, tax reform has a more universal impact – and yet much more time was spent in hearings and in public debate for the Affordable Care Act than for the tax bill. “[Tax reform] is affecting almost every single American in one way or another,” Peterson said.

The move to shrink monuments by the Trump administration is unlikely to succeed in court, a group of law professors led by the University of California, Los Angeles’s Nicholas Bryner [said] in a piece published on the academic website The Conversation and in a June edition of the Virginia Law Review.

“This sort of pattern is reminiscent of what we see during drought years,” says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “If it really does just last two or three weeks, it’s not a big deal. The real question is whether it will continue to come back.”

Adam Winkler, a gun law expert at the University of California Los Angeles, said the legislation the House is currently considering would also allow local residents in cities with tough restrictions to do an end run around local laws, and get their permit to carry a gun from another state with weaker laws. One of the proposed Democratic amendments to the bill would close that loophole.

“From a neuroscience perspective, we know that the brain keeps growing and developing,” said Adriana Galván, associate professor of psychology at UCLA and director of the UCLA Developmental Neuroscience Lab. “Current literature suggests that it’s around age 25 or so when the brain finishes the period of adolescence.”

UCLA scientists have developed a new way to use magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to scan the placenta. The noninvasive approach offers valuable insights into how the mother’s blood enters the placenta and sustains the fetus with oxygen and nutrients during early pregnancy. The technique breaks new ground because most previous studies on this subject occurred in the laboratory after childbirth.

“This excess was not known before because nobody could measure it. Our one-of-a-kind Panorama mass spectrometer allows us to see this for the first time. We conducted experiments showing that the only way for this excess of 15N15N to occur is by rare reactions in the upper atmosphere. Two percent is a huge excess,” said senior author Edward Young, a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry in a press release on UCLA’s website. (Also: Health Medicine Network)

New research from UCLA shows people perceive the sex ratio of a group, and decide if the group is threatening or not, in half a second. The perceptions of the number of men in the group are accurate, according to the research. (Also: Health Medicine Network)

“We wanted to provide a tool that decision-makers can use to accommodate forecasted consumer demand for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure,” [UCLA’s J.R.] DeShazo said. For example, the atlas provides planners with critical spatial information for meeting charging demand in multiunit residences and other places. It can also help utilities identify where utility upgrades may be needed to accommodate additional electricity loads.

Still, that’s “completely new,” said Alan Barreca, an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the study. “We know temperature affects health in many ways,” he said. “But we haven’t had an understanding of whether the effects of temperature in early life can persist into adulthood.”

(Commentary written by Hiroshi Motomura) There are compelling humanitarian and economic reasons to pass the bipartisan bill. The so-called Dreamers make real contributions to our society — 800,000 of them made use of DACA to further their educations and do essential work in our communities. Many have loved ones who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. Dreamers are American in every sense of the word except for their immigration status.

(Commentary written by UCLA’s Adam Winkler) Carrying guns across state lines can indeed be treacherous to gun owners. State laws are inconsistent. With growing numbers of Americans carrying concealed firearms, lawmakers should be thinking creatively about how to solve that problem.

(Commentary written by UCLA’s Saree Makdisi) Recognizing Israel’s claim to the city endorses this slow-motion ethnic cleansing and the apartheid policies sustaining it. No other state acknowledges Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem because its projection of sovereignty is the product of exactly this ongoing and historical violence.